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The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

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Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the appropriate places in alphabetical order, there shall be inserted the following definitions—

  • “personal pension scheme” has the same meaning as in the Income Support Regulations(1);

  • “retirement annuity contract” has the same meaning as in the Income Support Regulations(2);.

(3) In paragraph 10A of Schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)(3)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (1)—

(i)in head (b), after the words “occupational pension of his”, there shall be inserted the words “, or of any income from a personal pension scheme or a retirement annuity contract of his,”;

(ii)for the words “or pensions” there shall be substituted the words “, pensions or income”;

(b)for sub-paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

(2) Where a resident is entitled to pensions or income referred to in sub-paragraph (1) from more than one source, all pensions and income to which he is entitled shall be aggregated for the purposes of that sub-paragraph,.

(c)in sub-paragraph (3), for the words “occupational pension” there shall be substituted the words “pension or income referred to in sub-paragraph (1)”.

(1)

See regulation 2(1) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967), as amended by regulation 2(c) of S.I. 1993/2119 and regulation 6(2)(b) of S.I. 1995/2303.

(2)

See regulation 2(1) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967), as amended by regulation 6(2)(c) of S.I. 1995/2303.

(3)

Paragraph 10A was inserted by S.I. 1996/602, regulation 2(5).

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